Geologists Uncover the World’s “Largest Lithium Deposit” Under American Supervolcano, Worth 413 Billion Euros

I feel like this is the back story for some fucked up post-eco-apocalypse survival game.

• 2025: Geologists Uncover the World’s “Largest Lithium Deposit” Under American Supervolcano, Worth 413 Billion Euros
• 2037: Deep-bore mining of the supervolcano begins.
• 2049: The supervolcano mine now accounts for 60% of all lithium mined, worldwide, despite increasingly urgent warnings by geologists of instability.
• 2051: The Event.
• 2057: Survivors of The Event begin to make contact across the ash desert once known as the United States.